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University of Juba campus, lecture in Al Samani hall.

Exploring Complex Social-Ecological Systems

UC Davis Professors Valeria La Saponara, Isaya Kisekka, Eliska Rejmankova, Zhaodan Kong, Sanjai Parikh, Yufang Jin and UC Merced Professor Erin Hestir, along with international collaborators, received a 2024-25 Seed Grant.
Research team led by Charles Walker, professor of history at UC Davis, (not pictured) and Ruth Borja Santa Cruz (center), professor of history at the University of San Marcos in Peru, digitizes documents in Peru.

Preserving Human Rights Archives in Peru: UC Davis Leads New Digitization Project to Safeguard an Endangered History

  • by Alex Russell

It was a single note that reached Angélica Mendoza de Ascarza after her son Arquímedes was taken from her home by soldiers in Peru’s military. In faint cursive on a scrap of deeply creased brown paper, he wrote that he was being held at an army barracks and asked her to find a lawyer and money and any way possible to get him to a trial.

Group of variety of animals pictured in the wild

Ranking Virus Spillover Risk

SpillOver is the first open-source risk assessment tool that evaluates wildlife viruses to estimate their zoonotic spillover and pandemic potential. It effectively creates a watchlist of newly discovered viruses to help policymakers and health scientists prioritize them for further characterization, surveillance, and risk-reducing interventions.
Professor Janine LaSalle, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology and associate director of the Genome Center (left), and Professor Leigh Ann Simmons, chair of the Department of Human Ecology

UC Davis Invests $4 Million to Launch New Research Centers

The University of California, Davis, is investing $4 million over three years to launch four new research centers that align campus strengths with unique opportunities for global impact. The UC Davis Office of Research initiative is designed to promote new, sustainable, inter- and multidisciplinary research activity that responds to society’s greatest challenges and needs.
Cheang Sophat collects bundles of fresh water spinach from his fields to deliver to the Tasey Samaki Agricultural Cooperative’s packinghouse, to fulfill a customer’s order.

Agricultural Innovations Help Cambodian Farmers Thrive

These small-scale farmers have been working with researchers from the University of California, Davis, and Cambodia’s Royal University of Agriculture (RUA) to test new methods, like the packinghouse, for growing and selling produce locally. Their work is part of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Horticulture, a global network focused on fruit and vegetable research that is led by UC Davis and funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development.
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